TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Ruth H. Finnegan http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 24 May 2013 19:30:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Unglue.it Releases Two More Free E-Books (Updated) http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/unglue-it-releases-two-more-free-e-books/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/unglue-it-releases-two-more-free-e-books/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:26:28 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=77240 We’ve written about the Unglue.it project a few times in the past, but here’s a brief explanation for anyone who may not be familiar with the site: It’s essentially a crowdsource-funded campaign that attempts to purchase the copyrights to various books, which it then releases free-of-charge—and DRM-free—to literally anyone on earth who wants a copy. [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/unglue-it-releases-two-more-free-e-books/feed/ 3 Eric Hellman of Unglue.it on e-books, the creative commons, passionate authors and life after Amazon http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/eric-hellman-of-unglue-it-on-e-books-the-creative-commons-passionate-authors-and-life-after-amazon/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/eric-hellman-of-unglue-it-on-e-books-the-creative-commons-passionate-authors-and-life-after-amazon/#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:49:19 +0000 a TeleRead Contributor http://www.teleread.com/?p=72219 By Brian Howard A few weeks ago, crowdfunding platform Unglue.it announced the release of its first e-book, Oral Literature in Africa, via Cambridge’s Open Book Publishers. While the scholarly tome by Ruth H. Finnegan likely didn’t set the publishing world ablaze upon its initial publication in 1970, and its e-book release in 2012 didn’t unseat any bestsellers, its [...]

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